Description
This title won the American Historical Association's Herbert Feis Prize.
About the Author
Rachel P. Maines is an independent scholar and a technical processing assistant at Cornell University's Hotel School Library. She is also the author of numerous articles in scholarly and popular publications.
Reviews
Thorough, original, and surprising. -- Sarah Boxer New York Times Book Review Full of wonderful descriptions of the 'job nobody wanted,' including photographs of early vibrators and vaginal electrodes. -- Jeanette Winterson Times (London) Feminist scholarship exactly as it should be: a work that not only illuminates an astonishing bit of herstory, but does so with a neat balance of anger, wit and humor... A wonderful book. -- Carol Lynn Mithers L.A. Weekly Exhaustively researched... decidedly offbeat. -- Natalie Angier New York Times Here's a provocative history with a chip on its shoulder and a buzz under its skirt... Exhumes startling facts from the underground sexual history of the early twentieth century. -- Will Blythe Mirabella Maines has produced an exhaustive and deliciously savage history of the vibrator-as-sex-aid... This fascinating and exquisitely referenced true story reads like twisted science fiction. Library Journal A titillating and often hilarious account of the rise and fall (as it were) of the vibrator as a medical tool for the treatment of hysteria... A book that can delight as well as enlighten. Journal of the American Medical Association
Awards
Winner of Herbert Feis Award 1999 (United States) and Biennial Book Award 1999 (United States) and Science Award 1999 (United States).
Book Information
ISBN 9780801866463
Author Rachel P. Maines
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight(grams) 249g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 11mm